iCloud Two-Factor Authentication Does Not Protect Your Privacy

[…] using a fresh (spun up and installed from scratch) Windows 8 virtual machine running on Parallels 10.

After installing the iCloud Control Panel for Windows (as seen above), I logged in with my iCloud credentials and checked off the options to synchronize bookmarks and photos with my new, never-before-seen PC. Within a few minutes, my photo stream photos downloaded neatly into the appropriate folders and my bookmarks showed up in my Windows-side browser, and nary a 2FA alert to be seen. I turned to my iCloud email account to wait for the obligatory “Your account was accessed from a new computer” courtesy alert… which never arrived.